Ichiru Kiryu



== Ichiru Kiryu Anime Title(s): Vampire Knight, Vampire Knight Guilty Manga Title(s): Vampire Knight==

Bio:
Ichiru is Zero Kiryu's younger twin brother. When they were younger, they were both trained by Touga Yagari to become Vampire Hunters, but Ichiru’s weak body and vulnerability to sickness made it very difficult for him. It did not help that Zero had a natural talent for the trade far above a normal boy, Zero was succeeding him three times faster because of all these reasons.

Ichiru clung to Zero very tightly, becoming very close to him as his twin brother. What Ichiru lacked, he felt Zero would make up for. But Ichiru knew that their parents preferred Zero to him, they had been planning on splitting the boys up because of Ichiru’s weaknesses.

He could not sense Vampires the way Zero could, not having the natural fear the others did, he befriended the Pure Blood Vampire Shizuka Hio and even dismissed her killing his parents and the biting his brother.

He’s expressed feelings for Shizuka as he’d matured, but she refused to bite him and turn him into a Vampire, even though her blood was what was keeping him healthy.

Ichiru’s envious and angry, but also very sensitive, he both loves Zero and hates him, because everything always centered around, “Zero” not his “sickly twin brother.”

Cool Fact(s) About Vic Mignogna:
Vic’s said he was not going to, “purposely” change the voice for Ichiru because, as twins, they share the same voice, but rather, “Play the role according to their personalities, it’s their attitudes that you need to execute.”

Vic’s said that playing both Ichiru and Zero is an actor’s dream, playing twin brothers. “What’s more fun then to act against yourself?”